Etherboot 5.4.2 -- It is now possible to specify static boot information instead of getting that information from a DHCP server. This must be done carefully, since there is no check for whether the address is unique, and could potentially conflict with another network device. See the options beginning with STATIC_ in src/Config for more information. -- A new flag, EXIT_ON_FILE_LOAD_ERROR causes Etherboot to exit if boot file loading fails. -- PXE network booting is supported. PXE is the most common network booting method on x86-based machines, Using PXE requires configuring a dhcp server to provide a pxelinux.0 or other PXE bootloader, For loading Linux, see the PXELINUX home page at: http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php For server setup, an interesting article is here: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/PXE -- You must specify an argument to make. Help text is now provided to indicate possible make targets. -- It should be possible to compile Etherboot with gcc >= 3.3.3, including gcc 3.4.x now that a couple of bugs have been tracked down. Please mail reports of success or failure to the etherboot-users list, together with the versions of gcc and binutils used. gcc 2.x is not supported anymore. You need at least gcc 3.x to compile etherboot due to C99 constructs. -- In order to create .iso and .liso images you need to have the packages mtools-3.9.9 or later, and syslinux-2.08 or later installed. These packages are available in various locations and formats. .liso images are like .iso but use floppy emulation. If you have a very old BIOS and .liso images don't work you may wish to try adding the -s option of syslinux as a last resort. --